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Moth Into Flame · Metallica

EXERCISE 15 OF 63
Groove G
146 / 260 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
PART Z
PART AD
OUTRO
11 groovesHFIOAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Moth Into Flame on drums

260 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 6:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
260
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-45, snare through bars 46-61, hi-hat through bars 62-91, snare through bars 92-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-131, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Moth Into Flame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 13, 123, 139, 164, 165 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-62 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 43-121 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Break 3 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Moth Into Flame?

171 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Moth Into Flame hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

260 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Moth Into Flame?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 13, 123, 139, 164, 165 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 260 BARS ANALYSED